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The Very Best of Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Reasons to Be Cheerful: Released: 1 October 1999; Label: Papillon/EMI; Formats: CD, MC; 40 — — UK: Gold [11] Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll – Greatest Hits: Released: 2004; Label: Landmark; Formats: 2xCD — — — Reasons to Be Cheerful – The Best of Ian Dury: Released: 26 September 2005 ...
Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English singer, songwriter and actor who rose to fame in the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer and lyricist of Kilburn and the High Roads , the Kilburns, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and Ian Dury and the Music Students.
Originally fronted by lead singer Ian Dury as Ian Dury and the Blockheads or Ian and the Blockheads, the band has continued to perform since Dury's death in 2000. As of March 2023 [update] members included Chaz Jankel (guitar and keyboards), Nathan King (bass), Mick Gallagher (keyboards and piano), John Turnbull (vocals and guitar), John ...
"Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" is a song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, first released as a single on Stiff Records in the UK on 1 December 1978 and credited to "Ian & the Blockheads". Written by Dury and the Blockheads' multi-instrumentalist Chaz Jankel, it is the group's most successful single, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart in January 1979 as well as reaching the top three in ...
Laughter is the third studio album by Ian Dury and the Blockheads; released in 1980, it was the last studio album Dury made for Stiff Records.It was also the last studio album he made with the Blockheads, until 1998's Mr. Love Pants, though a live album Warts 'n' Audience was produced in 1991.
Lord Upminster is the second solo studio album by the English rock and roll singer-songwriter Ian Dury. [2] It was released by Polydor Records in September 1981.. It was recorded over a period of one month at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas with his old writing partner Chas Jankel and the reggae duo Sly and Robbie.
[5] [6] It was the first album to be credited to Ian Dury & the Blockheads rather than Ian Dury alone, although Dury had used the full band name for the "What a Waste" 7" single of 1978. The album was released in the wake of the chart-topping hit single " Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick ", and reached number two in the charts, behind ABBA 's ...
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